Whereas the Republican Party once claimed it was “colorblind,” now it embraces race-conscious rhetoric. The era of Trump’s dog whistle has given way to Tucker Carlson’s explicit politics of white grievance.
in this space is America First Legal, led by the architect of Trump’s most racist immigration policies, Stephen Miller. His group sues to stop policies that promote racial justice by arguing that they discriminate against whites.
To go further, with race-conscious policies attempting to repair centuries of systemic racism, was cast as oppressive to white people.that anti-racism was unconstitutional and racist by appealing to “colorblind” fictions: “It has been well-said that the Constitution is colorblind. And so it is just as wrong to compel children to attend certain schools for the sake of so-called integration as for the sake of segregation.
“Instinctually, that sounds right: You don’t want to treat anyone differently on account of race,” Muñoz said. “But what that doesn’t account for is we’re all part of a society that for hundreds of years has been treating people differently on account of race.”
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